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There is no great reward for being emotionally withdrawn, no pity prize for bottling your frustration. No one is coming to congratulate your chronic self-repression. By opening up, maybe you will inconvenience some people. Maybe you will trigger some conflict. Maybe you will be rejected, criticized, judged. Everything comes with a price and everything has its compensation. Authenticity may require pain, but it also opens the doors to joy, creativity, self-respect, empathy. Self-repression, on the other hand, costs you all the beauty of the world in exchange for a prison of comfort. Is it really worth it? Isn't it time to break free?
There is no great reward for being emotionally withdrawn, no pity prize for bottling your frustration. No one is coming to congratulate your chronic self-repression. By opening up, maybe you will inconvenience some people. Maybe you will trigger some conflict. Maybe you will be rejected, criticized, judged. Everything comes with a price and everything has its compensation. Authenticity may require pain, but it also opens the doors to joy, creativity, self-respect, empathy. Self-repression, on the other hand, costs you all the beauty of the world in exchange for a prison of comfort. Is it really worth it? Isn't it time to break free?
Approximate author period: c. 2013 AD · contemporary
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- Vironika Tugaleva
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- Approximate author period: c. 2013 AD · contemporary
Approximate historical context for attribution to Vironika Tugaleva, based on documented writing activity in 2013. The Love Mindset is attributed to Vironika Tugaleva; the author page records its Readers Favorite self-help award in 2013. An already-published book in 2013 supports author activity, not a date for every quotation. Source: Books — original author website, https://www.vironika.org/books/ (checked 2026-10-09). This does not establish the composition date or authenticate the attribution of these words. Source: https://www.vironika.org/books/ (accessed 2026-10-09).
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